Comparison of self-actualization of three different age-groups of religious women in Shostrom's POI and its implications to formation programs

• Main Author: Chu, Grace
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1979
• Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology); Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/612
• Institution: De La Salle University

This is a study of how different groups of religious varied in number of years of religious life conceive themselves as self-actualized religious. The descriptive design of causal comparative was adopted. The subjects of the study were volunteers from the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in the Philippines. Out of 147 religious that were within the required age limits for the study, 87 responded to participate. They were all Filipino religious with the exception of two, and they came from 19 localities situated in the 3 main regions of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) measuring instrument developed by Shostrom in 1964 was used in this research. Statistical treatments used were the means, standard deviations, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test. From the findings, the following conclusions were drawn: 1. The type of formation and training religious received has positive or negative influence on their self-actualization. The judicial and stereotyped formation before Vatican II hampered religious to become self-actualized, whereas the personal and creative trends adopted in renewal and formation of recent years generally enhanced religious to self-actualization. 2. Greater number of years spent in religious life does not become a factor to increase self-actualization of most religious of Group C is due to deficiency of their former training, and influence from their former life style and social environment. It does not, however, prove that the number of years has no effect on increasing self-actualization of religious. 3. There is no significant difference between professional and non-professional religious and that professional role identification is not the prime factor for the self-actualization of religious. 4. From the findings, in view of enhancing the personal growth of religious in self-actualization, there is a need to help them to better internalize vocational values in religious formation or renewal programs through existential experience and guidance in p